This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.

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Go to Kosis.com slash Made for this for 15% off your first purchase of $50 or more plus free shipping. So if you're just joining us this summer we are taking hot topics and a lot of your questions and a lot of your questions how to do with anxiety.

So we're going to talk about it. A lot of the issues that I have talked about in the past in my books address this.

Get out of your head is the quintessential book if you are struggling with fear or

anxiety, depression in any way mental health or just overthinking.

It is a really helpful resource and so I would encourage you to go get

out of your head if you haven't read it yet.

It will help you bring some order to the chaos of your mind. We have power over our thoughts and that is a

really powerful and helpful truth. However, I'm writing a book now about our

feelings and our emotions. That is a very different beast. So when we're

talking about anxiety, I want to address it in two parts. I want to talk about

our thought lives and I want to talk about our emotional life because the way that we are taught in the scriptures

to handle each one is just a little bit different. So a lot of your questions how to do

with what does Jenny do? What do you do in the moment you feel anxious? So that's what I really

want to address in this episode and it's super easy to do that because this happens to me at least

weekly, sometimes daily, but certainly weekly, I will be hit with

anxiety and let me be clear about what I'm talking about when I say anxiety.

Anxiety in my research is not actually an emotion.

It's actually a diagnosis and I think we've been too quick to treat it like it's a feeling.

It is a diagnosis. When you have anxiety it is because fear

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